Thursday, August 28, 2014

Stop Selling Death

Moving
from conflict to conflict in the Middle East, trying to keep up with
the politics and players involved, the unrelenting violence, the rising
death toll and refugee crisis, is as difficult as it is depressing.

There
is one common thread however – from Gaza to Syria to Iraq to Egypt to
Libya to Afghanistan -- U.S. military intervention and an ever-ready
supply of U.S weapons pouring into the region make matters worse.

U.S.
weapons provided to the Iraqi Army are now in the hands of extremists
who are close to tearing the country apart. The success of the
extremist offensive has led them to declare themselves the Islamic
State, stretching into Syria where they have been fighting to overthrow
the Assad government alongside other rebels being vetted by the U.S. to
see who is worthy of receiving yet more U.S. weapons transfers, just
what the region doesn’t need.